Petition 11384502 Details

To the Honorable the Senate & House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina

Filing Date:

1845-November-24

General Petition Information

Abstract:

Elisha Blackmon, executor of the estate of the late Samuel McCorkle, seeks to emancipate an enslaved family consisting of Lydia and her six children. Blackmon represents that the said McCorkle directed that said slaves be freed. The petitioner therefore prays "that the Legislators of this State will grant the request of the Testator." McCorkle's will also directed that Lydia and her family be transported "to the nearest nonholding slave state in the United States, or the Free colony in Africa if they choose to go there to live" if his executors "should fail to procure the emancipation of them in this state."